Spending the summer in Iceland isn’t such a good idea if you’re into beach holidays – but it can pay off very well if you’re constantly looking for interesting bands to feature! During this year’s visit in the land of fire and ice we came across the outstanding four-piece death metal band Angist – Angist is [...]weiterlesen →

If you’ve been following us on a certain social media tool lately you might have recognized that we found another new favourite band: Seremonia hail from Finland, where a lot of strangely inspired, strangely innovative music is being played these days. Their self-titled album was released earlier this month and is already making huge waves. Seremonia’s Ilkka [...]weiterlesen →

Blackholicus – Megaforte Think Iron Maiden. Think Motörhead. Think high speed shredding, twin guitars and crushing riffs. Think dirty DIY punk (with castanets!). Now think Thin Lizzy…and last but not least, think J.S.Bach. Team it up with an album cover depicting a SciFi animal war somewhere out in [...]weiterlesen →

The time has come – finally we’ll be doing reviews here at Empress, just like everybody else does. Wait … not quite like everybody else! Our approach will be a bit different, as we will not only be talking about the latest releases of currently active bands, but also about everything else we like: Old [...]weiterlesen →

After doing the vastly interesting pre-festival interview with Daniel Abecassis we went off to some very heavy days in the entirely doomed town of Copenhagen. Our expectations had been risen to gargantuan heights, and we were NOT disappointed. Thursday – Day One in Doom Town Doom Town – [...]weiterlesen →

Annick Giroux is one of the most interesting personalities metal has to offer these days. Not only is she the vocalist of Cauchemar, who were one of Fenriz’s bands of the week in 2010, but she is also a world-travelling, fanzine-editing, hellbent-for-cooking workaholic in the name of metal. As we are always interested in what [...]weiterlesen →

On the first weekend of May a new, innovative festival will be taking place in Copenhagen for the very first time: No headliners, no money making, just DOOM and DIY. HEAVY DAYS IN DOOMTOWN will be a very special event not only because of its most amazing line up – the [...]weiterlesen →